Flower Moon

Tao Yue'er returned to the inn and walked back to her room before taking off her cloak.But as soon as she walked inside, she found a person sitting on her bed.Tao Yue'er was startled, and lit a lamp, only to find that Chang Sui was sitting on her bed with disheveled hair, hugging a quilt, looking at herself coldly, and asked her, "Where have you been?"

"Can't sleep, turned around downstairs."

"Where is downstairs?"

"Just...nearby."

Chang Sui let out an 'oh', got off the bed with bare feet, moved closer to Tao Yue'er, sniffed her body, and said, "It seems to smell like barbecue..."

"You smelled it wrong." Tao Yue'er said, "It's not on me. It's that the whole city smells like burnt meat."

Chang Sui thought for a while and said, "It makes sense."

After finishing speaking, she stopped staring at Tao Yue'er.Tao Yueer asked again: "Why are you in my room?"

"I'm afraid." Chang Sui said, "Thinking of how they died during the day, I'm afraid. I'm afraid I will be poisoned suddenly one day."

"You won't." Tao Yue'er suddenly calmly and solemnly said, "You won't die."

"why?"

"Because..." Tao Yueer thought for a while and said, "Because you are with us, we will protect you."

"Really... That's really great." Chang Sui nodded with a smile, then walked back to the bed, patted the empty side of the bed, and said, "Sleep with me tonight, okay?"

Chang Sui was full of panic, showing a very frightened look, and begged Tao Yueer to sleep with her.

Tao Yue'er thought about it for a while, but didn't refuse, walked to her side, and lay down with her clothes.

"Thank you, Tao Yueer." Chang Sui said suddenly after the candle was extinguished.

She thanked her, of course, for helping each other these days, Tao Yueer felt that she could also afford her thank you, and said, "You're welcome."

After speaking, the sound of even breathing soon came from beside him.Chang Sui quickly fell asleep beside Tao Yue'er, but Tao Yue'er couldn't be so calm and at ease.She quietly put her hand on Chang Sui's hand. In the palm of her hand, calluses covered the entire palm, densely packed, without any softness and smoothness that belonged to a woman.

She was like a blacksmith who worked at the fire all day, and her hands were the evidence of her hard work.

Tao Yue'er couldn't sleep at all.

The next day, before the sun had fully risen, the sky was slightly bright, and the sound of the door opening and closing came from the next room, and it was Hua Ling who woke up.

Tao Yue'er seemed to have gained confidence suddenly, she quickly ran out of bed, she didn't even have time to tidy up her clothes, and rushed out in a plain white shirt.

As soon as he opened the door, he bumped into Hua Ling's arms.

"Yes, yes, it's Chang Sui!" Tao Yue'er was afraid that Chang Sui in the room would hear her, so she deliberately lowered her voice, but her tone couldn't hide her panic at all.

"What happened to Chang Sui?"

"Chang Sui has a problem! I suspect, she's not even Chang Sui at all!"

"Oh?" Hua Ling gave her a cold look, then took off her coat and put it on Tao Yue'er.

"It's not suitable to talk here, go to my room." After finishing speaking, Hua Ling ignored Tao Yue'er's resistance, directly picked her up and carried her all the way back to the room.

It was cold in the morning, she didn't have clothes on, and she didn't have time to change her shoes. It was obviously impossible for Hua Ling to want her to go back to her room to put on her shoes.Simply, go back and talk about it.

The two have been together day and night for three years, and this is not the first time that such a thing has happened. Tao Yue'er has long since lost her pride, and she let him hold her without saying a word. She was so full of thoughts that she couldn't wait to tell Hua Ling what she had discovered after returning to her room. 'the truth'!
In Hua Ling's room, there is always a faint fragrance.Like lotus, orchid, gardenia, the fragrance is incomparable, refreshing, but one can smell it carefully but can't find the source.No matter at any time, this fragrance seems to be by your side, but you can't catch it.Just like Hualing, it is nihilistic and noble.

"It smells so good." Tao Yue'er is always immersed in this scent, every day when it's time for him to burn the incense, she can't wait to lean over and take a deep breath.

Hua Ling put Tao Yue'er on the bed, cleaned the soles of her feet with a handkerchief, then went to the table again, and lit a wisp of incense.It was Tao Yueer's favorite flavor.

When Tao Yue'er smelled the fragrance, she felt relieved, but she was still shocked.

"I found that there are many calluses in Chang Sui's palm." Tao Yue'er said.

"so what?"

"And those who died also had cocoons in their hands, but not many." Tao Yue'er told about her visit to Chang's mansion last night, and then said: "As for Chang Sui, according to what she said and what I heard from others, Chang Sui She didn't like blacksmithing since she was a child, so her elder sister sent her to Taoism to practice, but her talent is low, so she hasn't improved much. It stands to reason that her hands shouldn't have so many calluses and scars left by blacksmithing. At most, there should be only cocoons that come from holding a sword like Ji Hanyu and the others, and they are evenly distributed in the palm of your hand."

"Continue to talk." Hua Ling did not refute, and continued to listen.

Tao Yueer said again: "Chang Sui has almost no power to fight back in front of Xuanxiu practitioners. No matter how poor her talent is, she shouldn't be so stupid. And what she did in front of those people doesn't seem like a It's just pretending, so I think...Chang Sui's real identity should be Chang Yu. And she burned the body of 'Chang Yu' in such a hurry, probably because she wanted to destroy the body and wipe out the traces, so that we can't find out."

After Tao Yue'er finished speaking, Hua Ling's eyes showed a bit of appreciation and affirmation, without any surprise.

"You think so too?" Tao Yueer asked tentatively.

Hua Ling nodded, and said: "I didn't doubt Chang Sui's identity first, I just thought it was all very strange... From the moment we fell into Cang Kingdom, it was as if we were being pushed away by one hand. But I don't know who this hand is. After listening to you today, I probably understand that the entire Cang Kingdom and his party were deliberately concocted by Chang Yu in order to attract Xuan Qingzong's revenge and make the case of extermination sensational and reasonable. A big show."

"Why did she do this?" Tao Yue'er was shocked.

"It's unknown, maybe it's to make the whole thing look reasonable, and to get rid of its own suspicion, or Cangguo has something she wants, so it deliberately lures everyone. In short, this pair of people in the dark Hands, the layout has been made a long time ago. I didn't know who it was before, but after you finished speaking, I understood that it was her who did all of this. And only her."

"She doesn't have much cultivation and spiritual power, how can she do it?"

"Don't forget, she is a master builder. The world only knows that she forges swords, but who knows what else she can do? I even suspect now that even the magical kits may... come from her hands."